I heard a great story once
It gets across the point if the earth really is alive
If you were interviewing a butterfly
Standing on the branch of a sequoia tree
Now, a butterfly lives only for a few days
And a sequoia tree can live for over a thousand years
If you were to ask the butterfly:
Do you perceive the object on which your standing is being alive?
The butterfly would say: of course not. I've been here all my life
Which is all of five days, and the tree hasn't done a thing
Well, it's the same problem with the human being
If you were to ask a person
Perhaps one that's lived for a hundred years
They perceive the earth, which is really 5 billion years old, is being alive
They would say: of course not. I've been here my whole life, and it hasn't done a thing.
The earth really is alive
The earth really is alive
Butterfly
Butterfly
Butterfly
Butterfly
Standing on the branch
Of a sequoia tree
The earth really is alive
